[German]ACROS Security has released a micropatch for the vulnerability CVE-2020-1337 (Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege) for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 (without ESU license).
[German]On September 1, 2020 (first Tuesday of the month, Office Patchday), Microsoft released several non-security updates for versions of Microsoft Office that are still supported. Here is a brief overview.
[German]On September 24, 2020, Microsoft will discontinue support for package downloads from packages.microsoft.com over connections encrypted using TLS 1.0/1.1. Here is some information on the subject.
[German]Do you have a Lenovo ThinkPad with Windows 10 version 2004 that shows a SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED BSOD error in ldiagio.sys since installing the August 2020 updates? You are not alone, Lenovo has now issued a warning about this. In addition, Microsoft has admitted further issues with Windows 10 Version 2004 at the end of August 2020 and has set an upgrade blocker for devices with WWAN LTE modems.
[German]Administrators of Cisco products (switches etc.) need to patch. That's because the manufacturer issued six security advisories this week with warnings about weak points in products.
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[German]A brief information: Microsoft has removed the Miracast receiver app in Windows 10 May 2020 Update (Version 2004). However, the app can be installed as an optional feature, if required. Here some information about this (annoying) topic.
[German]In Windows 10 cliets as well as in Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019, events with ID 650 may occur in the Event Viewer. Microsoft has provided an explanation for these entries as of August 13, 2020.
[German]A blog German reader informed me about an interesting observation in connection with the flash update KB4561600 under Windows 8.1. After the monthly patchday his system was extremely slow. After some searching he found the root cause and a fix.
[German]Microsoft is currently testing the update KB4571744 with Windows Insiders. The description of the update also says that a defrag error is fixed. However, the hope that the bug that defragmented SSDs was fixed has been dashed. Also with the update, SSDs are further (erroneously) defragmented instead of optimized. I have added the details in the blog post Windows 10 Version 2004: Update KB4571744 will fix the Defrag bug.
[German]The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird have released version 78.2.1 of the e-mail client on August 29, 2020. This is a maintenance update for the 78 main version of the e-mail client, which provides OpenPGP support. This was missing in version 78.2.0, which was released on August 26, 2020.
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